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80
Viewer score based on 5 votes.

Critic Score

52
Critics' score based on 14 reviews.
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Fishburne excels in his triple-threat roles as actor, director and adapter of his own play, and his cast glows under his direction.Full Review

Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times

Showcases a trio of terrific performances.Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

May lack any transcendent point that would make it exceptional, but it is certainly a worthy start, and worth catching.Full Review

F. X. Feeney
L.A. Weekly

Strong, hard, dirty, funny, moving atmospheric and laced with scabrously musical street dialogue.Full Review

Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune

The movie remains an actor's exercise--too much dialogue, too much time in the room, too much happening offstage, or in the past, or in memory, or in imagination.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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